The goal of this pilot is to transform cancer care by applying advanced computational capabilities to population-based cancer data. This will lead to greater understanding about the impact of new diagnostics, treatments, and other factors affecting patient outcomes.

Pilot Leads

With shared expertise across the JDACS4C collaboration, this pilot is jointly led by:

Dr. Lynne Penberthy, NCI, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences

Dr. Georgia Tourassi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Aims of the Pilot

Information capture of unstructured clinical text to improve the capacity of the NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program

Information integration and analysis of extreme-scale graph, visual, and in-memory data to understand drivers in patterns of cancer outcomes and predict clinical endpoints